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Smartsheet.com Amazon Web Services Case Study Todd Fasullo Director Operations, Smartsheet.com

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WTIA Cloud Computing Series - Part II: Picnik Case Study. Presented by: Todd Fasullo, Director of Operations, SmartSheet.

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Page 1: Cloud Computing Series - Part II: SmartSheet Case Study

Smartsheet.com Amazon Web Services Case Study

Todd FasulloDirector Operations, Smartsheet.com

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AgendaAgenda

Who is Smartsheet?Quick DemoHow we use Amazon Web Services–Which services– Benefits to us and our customers

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What is Smartsheet?What is Smartsheet?

Smartsheet.com is an online service (SaaS) for managing any kind of work across personal, team, client, or on-demand work scenariosFounded in 2005– 10 Employees– Over 50,000 companies have tried

Smartsheet – Logins from 94+ countries in past year

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Sample Use CasesSample Use Cases

Project Management– Team Task List– Time Tracking

Legal & Finance– M&A Due Diligence– IPO Time & Resp.

Sales– Pipeline – Client Contact List

Product Mgmt– Issue/Bug Tracker– Enhancement List

Marketing– Event Planning– Dept. Goal

Tracking

Personal– Wedding Planning– Home Remodel

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DemoDemo

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AWS Services We UseAWS Services We Use

CloudFront– Implemented in Nov 2008 during beta

period

S3 – Document Attachments & Cache– Using since Nov 2006

Mechanical Turk– New Smartsourcing feature released

this month

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RequirementsRequirements

24 x 7 SecureScalableFlexibleIntegrate well with our current hosting infrastructure– Core application infrastructure is running

on dedicated servers at hosting provider

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BenefitsBenefits

Improved scalability and performance– Offload core infrastructure services to AWS

Cost effective solution for us and our customers– S3 was 5% cost of our initial projection for

local storage at our hosting provider– CloudFront was < 1% cost of traditional

CDN provider– No sales negotiation – no long term

contractsSmartsheet 8

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ConsiderationsConsiderations

Looking forward to see where CloudFront service is moving – SSL support is important to us–More cache flushing flexibility

Anxious for S3 Management ConsoleSample code libraries are of varying quality

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